Coloring A Fish With Felt Pen in ArtRage 4

Join us for a quick coloring session featuring the vibrant Cuban Hogfish and the Felt Pen tool!

A coloring tutorial demonstrating tips for creating a line art from your pencil sketch and coloring it neatly with the felt pen in ArtRage 4. You can also watch the video of the painting process on YouTube (or at the end of this post).

Learn How To Draw and Color This Fish!

The finished picture from this tutorial

Click through the gallery for the step by step tutorial

Step 1: Sketch your basic fish shape

This sketch used the Pencil tool (P)

Precise Mode and Smoothing are optional but let you get cleaner lines

Use a reference or tracing image if you need to

Step 2: Ink Your Lines

Add a new layer (Ctrl+L)

Lower the opacity of the sketch layer

Choose the Ink Pen (I)

Adjust Smoothing & the Taper settings to get a nice flowing line that works with your hand movements and desired line sizes image

Ambient Design is a New Zealand based software development company specializing in creative tools for artists.

Our work across desktop and mobile platforms focuses on creating natural tools with intuitive interfaces. These let artists from both traditional and digital backgrounds paint without having to learn digital tricks to get realistic results.